The Oxford History of Australia: 1901-1942 : The Succeeding Age

The first volume to appear in the five-volume Oxford History of Australia, this book surveys the forty years following the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901. It was a time of great change on the continent: institutions were fashioned to meet the needs of a nation; markets were extended; industries were enlarged; and Australians pursued plans for material and social progress through war and economic crisis. Yet as Australia yearned for autonomous nationhood and industrial self-sufficiency, it remained bound to Britain by ties of trade, culture, and sentiment. This narrative history explores the shifting patterns of class conflict and compromise that shaped the course of events and traces the links between the social, economic, and political processes of a nation in transition.

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Page 34010 A comprehensive survey of manufacturing, with statistics up to 1900, is
provided by G.J.R. Linge, Industrial Awakening: A Geography of Australian
Manufacturing, 1788 to 1890, ANU Press, Canberra, 1979. Thereafter see Butlin,
Australian ...

Page 383Colin Forster, Industrial Development in Australia 1920-30 (ANU Press, Canberra
, 1964) and C.B. Schedvin, Australia and the Great Depression (SUP, Sydney,
1970) are the only substantial treatments of their respective periods.

Page 385Cameron Hazlehurst (ed.), Australian Conservatism: Essays on Twentieth
Century Political History (ANU Press, Canberra, 1979) has to substitute for
comprehensive accounts of the Nationalist and United Australia parties; and D.J.
Murphy (ed.) ...